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Living harvestmen—a group of arachnids commonly known as daddy longlegs—have a single pair of eyes. But a newly described 305-million-year-old fossil found in eastern France shows that wasn’t always the case.

New research on the skulls of red pandas and giant pandas provides further explanation as to why the two species—which are not closely related but dine on the same food, bamboo, in the same geographic area—are able to coexist.

Scientists have shown for the first time that deep-sea fishes that use bioluminescence for communication are diversifying into different species faster than other glowing fishes that use light for camouflage.